YAY
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Holy frijoles...... 20 minutes in and 6 sell-outs already..... Guess I'm not sleeping tonight!
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
This stuff is going ridiculously quick. I can barely decide whether I am interested before it sells out.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
We're now stuck on tire pressure monitors LOL. I think it went 10 items in about 45 minutes before these posted. And we've already had our first server crash of the Woot Off.
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
What is so special about woot offs? Explanation please.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Normally Woot posts one item a day at midnight Central time. When it sells out, that's it till the next midnight.
However, about once a month, they hold a Woot Off. First item lists at midnight, but as soon as that item sells out, another one replaces it. And it keeps on going for roughly 36-48 hours. Smaller quantities of items, usually leftovers of items that didn't sell out on the daily listings.
And then there's the BOC. Usually the last item in a Woot Off (but has been known to appear earlier to confuse the regulars or even on rare occasion on the daily listing), you have absolutely NO idea what you're getting on this one but it's up to three items at a buck an item plus shipping. BOCs are guaranteed to crash the servers as everyone and their uncle tries to get in on that action.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
Gah! Somebody buy the home theater system so we can get something else up. I've been watching it for 15 minutes already!
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
You can buy it for me .
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
Possibly wrongful, but since I don't know how to link-share a soon-to-disappear WOOT! tale...
Once upon a time, wootie-pies, there was a handsome young man who came upon an iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220. The iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 could sense and find dirt, provide up to 120 minutes of cleaning power, recharge in three hours and was smarter than any regular vacuum, yet was lying there, unable to move. The young man looked down, and saw that the iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 was caught on a piece of a pizza box that was smeared with peanut butter and cat hair. The young man clicked his tongue with pity and helped the poor Roomba free. It did not say thank you or look back, it merely rolled on, cleaning the forest and heading toward the recharge station it called home. The young man went along his own path as well.
Years went by, and the young man was now old, and had also somehow been captured by bandits! The bandits threw the old young man into a pit full of sharp sticks and poorly stuffed bean bags. They yelled from above and threw inexpensive cheese at his face, as bandits often do. From deep in the dark corner of the pit, the old young man heard a rumbling of stair-sensing technology coming to lif, and he trembled as it began moving through the Virtual Walls that kept it in check, growing closer and closer to him…
It was the iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 he had rescued all those years ago! Surely, he thought to himself, surely it will repay my kindness today! But no, my friends, the iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 simply rolled over him without remorse, pity, or any spark of good intentions whatsoever, as though he were just another dust bunny.
And that brings us to our moral, wootie-pies. For now you understand why all of nature abhors a vacuum.
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
bump!
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
I got a pair of Dick Tracey style watch-radios a week ago, but one came with a bum battery
Otherwise, WOOT is awesome.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Awmannnnnn, and I have no money again....
Why, Woot??? Why must you torture me so???
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Bump.
Because I needed more things to cause procrastination right now... Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
The price on that computer is nice, but I really hate buying refurbished 'puters . . .
. . . and it doesn't matter, because it's gone.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Another one that didn't end in a Bandolier of Carrots server crash. Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Bump.
Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :
This should be interesting. I saw this thread bumped before I checked woot.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
i would've picked up that gps. that went fast.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
.....And the site wonkiness has already begun....
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Hot damn that is the ugliest Roomba ever!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Missed it. What color/style was it?
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
What makes it uglier than any other Roomba?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Pistachios?
What are they, nuts?
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
They've had that same Samsung UltraPC 4 or 5 times now....
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Someone broke the site. Runtime error on the main page and the blog page, forums are responsive enough where people are posting in the last item about the error. They must have finally posted the BOC. Or flying monkeys.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
ugh i hate when i hit the wrong button
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: What makes it uglier than any other Roomba?
That hideous burgundy red clashes with that gray/green.
Posted by Jake (Member # 206) on :
That camera is so ridiculously cheap that I almost feel like buying it just to take it apart.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Darn! Wanted one of those.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Got me some monkeys.
But no bag of crap. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Those monkeys are going to be up forever.
Or at least the next hour, which is close enough for my purposes. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Looks like the monkeys mark the end of the woot off--I'm not seeing the rotating lights and reverse progress bar.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Oh, man, I missed a coffee maker. The last one I got from woot broke the other day, and I've been keeping my eye on the site for another one.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Yeah, but it was a refurb and it went fast.
I was hoping the monkeys' lack of bar was temporary. Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Awcrud I missed monkeys. Now there's three colors I'm missing.
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
Another to celebrate april fool's day, I guess.
Posted by Ginol_Enam (Member # 7070) on :
I could have got a bag o' crap, but it needed my card's security code and I didn't have it ready And it sold out...
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
I can't buy one, but I see BoC up.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
DANG!
I was so close -- I know my card's code and entered it quickly, but darn page took too long to load. Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
Dang, too much loading to get the bag of crap.
I did get some 2G SD cards the other day when the woot off was going though. Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Not quiote sure how this one's gonna work, actually. There were several BoCs this time but each one sold out almost instantly and many folks (myself included) thought they were solid until they got the dreaded "Sorry, we're sold out, but you're in line" message. This happened to me twice today.
The description of this last one makes me wonder if everyone "on line" will get one, or just the people that got one of the last ones, or what.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I didn't even make it in line. Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
I think the BoC WAS the April Fool's joke.
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
What do you get in a bag of crap?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Crap.
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
Oh.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
As in, just about anything. They guarantee what's in them will be worth at least as much as the price, and possibly a lot more. Some people have received giant HDTVs in their bag of crap.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
bump!
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
Ok, excuse my ignorance. Can someone tell me what woot means? Is it an acronym?
It took me forever to figure out IMO.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Woot.com is a site where they have a sale on something each day. They sell it until they run out or until it's the next day, at which point they sell something new.
Woot offs, if I'm not mistaken, speed up this process, jumping from one thing to another over the course of a day, and you have to keep hitting refresh to see what's up for sale at any given minute.
We got our HDTV off of Woot a couple of months ago, and we're really happy with it.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
If you're asking about the word "woot" used as an exclamation, it basically is synonymous with "yay" and "yippee."
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
quote:Woot offs, if I'm not mistaken, speed up this process, jumping from one thing to another over the course of a day, and you have to keep hitting refresh to see what's up for sale at any given minute.
yeah, they basically take whatever extra stuff they have in stock and sell it off. As soon as something sells out(which may be a matter of minutes) they put up the next item.
i'm not sure where the origination of the word comes from, but scifibum is correct about it's general meaning.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Hey, we got a shout-out to our earthquake on woot!
quote:This union promises to rock the world of satellite radio like that earthquake that hit L.A. earlier today, although probably without damaging any buildings.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
I've heard that if you buy only one BoC that you'll get more than if you had bought three. Is that true?
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Not that I have heard. I hear just the opposite.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
Has anyone here gotten a BoC?
Posted by EmpSquared (Member # 10890) on :
Speaking of which, let's roll!
BoC!
Yeah, I believe ApostleRadio/prolixshore has. He got a Roomba. For a dollar.
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
bumpy bump bump
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Nothing exciting so far. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Well, those little photo keychains were cute. I was going to get 'em for the kids, but they sold out too quickly. Probably just as well.
Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :
Woot and I share a birthday, and I was able to get a BOC last year during that time. I didn't get anything special, just a couple of trinkets, but it was definitely worth more than three dollars.
Posted by Selran (Member # 9918) on :
Bump for Woot off PSA
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
WANT!
(do NOT need. am NOT getting)
WANT!
Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
I hate that I'm tired and have to go to bed soon and I might miss seeing a BoC.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I didn't miss the BoC this time! I wasn't away from the computer, or anything.
I just couldn't freaking get through!!!!!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Same here. I have to date clicked on 14 BoCs in my life, and gotten no farther than the "Buy Three" button. Ever.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
How much of your life do you have to devote to Woot to get a BoC? (I mean, is there ANY chance of a positive ROI even if they send you a Lexus?)
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I have no idea how many Bags of Crap I've missed as I sat there, glaring at their "Server busy" message after clicking on the "Buy Three" button, but it's a high number. I've rarely missed a bag of crap in the years I've been watching Woot, but I've never gotten one.
Icarus got one the last time around, though. No idea how he pulled it off, but he did. He acquired some mid-level crap, too--not a bad haul.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
I think maybe we've learned the real reason for botnets.
To buy all the bags of crap.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
:: laugh ::
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Like the thread says...
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Nuts! I wanted those keyboards!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Well, something very interesting is apparently being sold, because all I can get right now is "Server Error."
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
*cough*
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
unless it stopped at some point, it's actually still going on.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Yup.
And so far, mostly not the crap that comes in bags. Just crap. Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
you mean you don't need a nut roaster?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
The only male in my household would be unlikely to appreciate one.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
bump!
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
It's a "Shirt.Woot Reckoning Sale: All Shirts 20% Off." Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
only for a little bit. it's been various other items all day.
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
Ah, it has changed. I don't need "Cobra microTALK GMRS/FRS 16 Mile 2-Way Radios – 2 Pack" though. And I should stay away anyway - it's a time waster for me.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
caysedai, a woot off lasts for a day, sometimes two, where one item after another is continuously put up until it sells out, then on the the next one. Some times dozens or more different items are sold during the woot off.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
4G ram laptop for sale right now, $429.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
But the woot-off appears to be over. Was there a BOC?
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
i didn't see one. I just want one BOC before I die...
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
hah, I'm talking long term here. Nothing is impending..don't worry. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
You are not the source of my confusion. The fact that we seem to have another woot-off in progress is what has me confused.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
it should be a source for joy!
example:
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
Strider: I'm familiar with the woot-off. My confusion at first was because I had never seen the shirt thing and it didn't seem to be progressing, giving me the impression it would never end. Note my follow-up comment about woot-offs being a time-waster for me. I would sit and refresh for hours if I didn't stop myself, in hopes of bagging (so to speak) a BOC.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Just use a Woot watcher, CS.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
If you're using FF, I highly recommend the FF Woot Watcher add-on.
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
I should probably just stay altogether. I usually can't afford anything, anyway. And I don't really need more stuff. I do like my MP3 player I got a few months, ago, though. Posted by Cookie Crisp (Member # 12312) on :
It's not a woot off, but the woot.com April Fools joke is pretty cute: Woot Your Own Adventure!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Strider: I just want one BOC before I die...
This may be my new mantra. But this year's April 1st BOC "game" is exactly what is needed to make me give up.
I cannot get past level 2. And if my count is right, I need to get past at least level 6 or 7 to get a BOC.
GRAH! Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
Is there really a game? Or is the whole thing an April fool's joke?
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
BOCs are not laughing matters.
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Agreed!
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
the game is working for me now. but you have to get up all the way through level 8 to order the BOC! I don't think I have the time for this right now...
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Strider: Is there really a game? Or is the whole thing an April fool's joke?
Based on the comments, beating the game is no guarantee of anything.
Also, they're all gone now.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
HAH!!!!!
I knew that someday my day would come! Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
did I just miss a BOC?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Yup.
I can die happy now. Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
congrats rivka!
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
I got a BOC on Moofi, on the 16th. Didn't even crash the server.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
My BOC arrived. I got a UV toothbrush sanitizer, an experiment kit for kids (age 5 and up) and an iPod stereo system, in a beat up box.
Oh, and a woot monkey, and woot-branded head and arm bands (go-go 80s revivalist styles!)
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Mine came Monday. UV sanitizer, truth-or-dare type game, and the sweatbands. Oh, and the green bag thing that everyone got this batch.
I confess to mild disappointment.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Heh. The ipod stereo system worked for about 30 seconds this morning. Considering the condition of the box it came in, that isn't really a surprise.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Suddenly I'm a little less broken up about the fact that I've never gotten a BOC.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I'd do it again. Hopefully, I will.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Well the stereo was working again yesterday afternoon. We'll see how it goes.
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